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In the 13th century, 10 children escape an outbreak of the black death and seek shelter in the countryside. To distract themselves from hours spent uncomfortably trying to forget their precarious mortality, they tell each other stories about love: fulfilled, thwarted, illicit and rewarded.
This isn't the Taviani brothers' strongest film to date, but it's one that feels uniquely at peace with the limitations of art and depiction in the face of oblivion.
Here's a leaden affair with some lovely visuals and colorful gowns that seem just picked up from the dry cleaners. What's strange here is that the joy of Boccaccio's sagas still seep through: his high veneration of both love and sex in equal measure.